Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Finance Scam BACKFIRES in HIS FACE at Worst Time?!

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

To launch his new “cryptocurrency” get-rich-quick scam announced while he is campaigning for the presidency, Trump has gone into business with a self-professed former criminal and someone whose claim to fame is that he used to make videos about how to “pick up hotter women”. Michael Popok examines Trump’s new “World Liberty Finance” crypto scam led by his sons, including teenager Barron, and Trump’s efforts to change American policy to line his pockets. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/LEGALAF and use the code LEGALAF to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/LegalAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And on the other side, the other person in business with Donald Trump for this new cryptocurrency scheme is a guy named Zach Folkman, who when he used to be Zach Bauer ran instructional videos about how men should pick up hotter women. Get hotter girls. I'm not making this up. These are the people that are at the heart of a company that was the predecessor to World Liberty Finance, a company called Do Finance. These guys, Folkman and Harrow, along with programmers and others that are at the core, at the center, at the platform of Donald Trump's new World Liberty Financial token business, they are the brains behind the operation. In a new white paper, the coin desk got their hands on. Donald Trump is listed as a crypto ambassador. Eric and Don Jr. are listed

as some sort of cryptocurrency advocate or web ambassadors. And Barron Trump, 18 years old, just started school over at NYU, he's listed as a DeFi, a decentralized finance visionary. Of course, deep and buried in the white paper, which is basically a prospectus for potential investors, is a note that the Trump family and Trump, Donald Trump himself, doesn't own this. They're just shilling it. They're just selling it. The brains behind the operation are this guy, Zach Folkman, and I got a clip.

I'm gonna show you a clip now of Zach Folkman 12 years ago teaching men how to pick up hotter women. Let's run that clip. And like I said, I bought in probably harder than anybody in this room into this myth that there were these guys out there that had this secret routine stacker, whatever you want to call it. They had these magic lines and these special ways of doing things where they could pretty

much go up to a girl who was with her husband, her fiance, and steal this girl off this guy's arm and leave with her and run off into the sunset. It was that dream, honestly, that really got me to where I am today because I would meet guys that maybe you guys have been on some of the internet forums and it's like, oh, this guy, he's really good. He really knows what he's talking about. You should have seen my friend. He's really good. He really knows what he's talking about or, oh, like, you should have seen my friend. He's so good. So, you know, Rob and I were going out and we were

spending a lot of time like trying to meet these guys, trying to figure out what they were doing, what was working for them so that we could, you know, do it ourselves, you know what I mean? And then you've got Chase Harrow. Both these guys helped found Doe Finance. Chase Harrow on the Logan Paul podcast admitted to serving time in jail. Let's run that clip. You made it out of the mud. My dad wanted to know about your jail story, so I want to just dive right in. Yeah, yeah.

So you want to start like how I got locked up and shit? Yeah, be a good son. Please, please, Chase. So I actually got arrested in class. Crazy, right? How old are you? Well, so my first time getting arrested was 18, but like when I like, or 17, when I got arrested, arrested, went to jail, I was 18 years old.

It was a day before my birthday. But my first time actually getting handcuffed, I was in my senior class and it was first period. And Stuart guys are talking about drugs and shit. I had just eaten mushrooms. And- Oh no. The TV goes dark, right?

So it's like, it was like, what's that? We watched the movies, you know, the teacher doesn't do shit except play movies. So it was that one. So, you know, I eat them, I'm sitting all, and it goes dark. And so you're kind of like in this zone. And then all of a sudden the lights come on

and like the bell hadn't rung and it was like, you know, I'm like, what's going on? And two officers walk in the room. They're like, we're looking for Chase here. I'm like, how'd they know I was on mushrooms? Could they see it in my face? Smell it? Like, oh my God, they're here for that.

No, they weren't. They were there for me getting in trouble with drugs, selling drugs. And I had someone rat me out finally and they dug through my shit and found drugs, right? So they arrested me, they hauled me off, I bonded out and then I went back in, I went to arraignment, I thought, you know, I'm going to get out of this. I had a friend of mine who has also gotten a lot of trouble.

He's like, listen, shut the fuck up. I'm taking this one. You got me, I got you. And I said, okay, awesome. And I kind of had this weird smirk on my face. He got his bid, she looked at me, and she gave me this whole kind of, and she just threw the book at me and sent me off.

She's like three and a half years, goodbye, and just banged her shit down, and all I heard was my mom go, ah, and then broke down. And so right from there, I'm like, where golf slacks and shit, they haul me right off to jail. And like, the thing about jail or prison or getting locked up,

it's not actually once you're in, it's the time prior. Because they toss you around like a pinball, right? You're going into all these holding facilities where everybody's coming in fresh off the streets, they hate their fucking lives, they're really depressed, they're really pissed off, they got huge charges, and you know, it got really scary really quickly. And you know, you asked how I got out of the mud, that's how I got out of the mud. I sat in a cell for years of my life looking at all

these people and I go holy fuck I'm actually a piece of shit. Okay does this give you a lot of confidence? This may explain why we see clips like this coming out of Donald Trump's social media campaign about world liberty finance. Let's run this clip. Join me live on Twitter spaces at 8 p.m. the September 16th for the launch of world Liberty Financial. We're embracing the future with crypto and leaving the slow and outdated big banks behind. Now, you're learning a lot about this, are you? It's just about taking on the big banks and having direct interactions without cutting out the middleman and peer to peer and all

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of the Emoluments Clause. This is anticipatory violation of the Emoluments Clause. This is putting our policy up for sale to line the pockets of Donald Trump yet again. I mean, I know his house of cards, his financial house of cards is tumbling, but this is the people he got in bed with. When he was golfing in West Palm Beach, he was golfing recently and he had this little issue with a guy poking a gun out of a bush at the Secret Service, missed until the very last moment. He was golfing with one of his close friends, Steve Witkoff. Steve Witkoff is a real estate developer down in Florida who also testified as a quote unquote expert for Donald Trump in the Attorney General case in which the judge found him liable for

a $500 million fraud. What could go wrong when you have one of your cronies, golf buddies, and friends and investors in your cryptocurrency business along with his son be your expert witness in front of the judge. Nothing. So Steve Witkoff's involved, his son's involved, Eric Trump's involved, Don Jr.'s involved, and my favorite is Barron Trump. Barron Trump listed as the creative genius, the visionary behind this whole operation, supported by a guy who confessed on the Logan Paul podcast

that he's a dirtbag and went to jail. And another guy who changed his name, so sullied his name, I guess, of Zach Bauer and needed to become Zach Folkman, a man of the people. But when he wasn't a man of the people, he was shilling how to be a pickup artist on YouTube. Does this give anybody great confidence that they want to invest with Donald Trump? Donald Trump leaves a trail of broken tiers and broken wallets for people that think to invest with him. Five bankruptcies. Think about how many vendors, contractors, subcontractors,

people in deals with Donald Trump got crushed by his five bankruptcies. That means hundreds of pages of creditors that he stiffed in his bankruptcies. Small mom and pop businesses, some of which went out of business because he went bankrupt. Five of those, including in the casino business. Look what he did running Truth Social. I thought people were voting for him because he's a great businessman. He's going to take those instincts to the White House and that judgment. Truth Social is circling the drain.

Its stock has dropped from $90 a share down to it's heading down to $10 and crushing investors all along the way. Five bankruptcies, a failed truth social media, and look how he's running his campaign as the CEO of Trump Incorporated. This is what you're supposed to be judging the presidential candidate on, right? This is what you're supposed to be deciding whether you're going to invest with this guy. He only takes the sucker bet. He only makes the sucker bet, and he gets the suckers to pay it. And now you should know what Coinbase has revealed, which is these are the people that he's gotten into business with, meaning you're going to get

into business with them. What could go wrong where the guy who's claimed to fame is how to teach you how to pick up hot women and somebody who went to jail and calls himself the dirtbag of the internet and drives around in a boat or sails around in a boat that's called clickbait? I think this is fine, but to Don Jr. and to Eric and to Barron and to Don and to Steve Witkoff and to others that have invested with Donald Trump. He's going to be the visionary of cryptocurrency and hoping he gets back into office so he spends all of your and my taxpayer dollars, not his own because he doesn't pay taxes, but all of your and my taxpayer dollars to go buy a strategic reserve of billions of dollars like a petroleum reserve to benefit

Steve Witkoff, his friends, these two guys, Zach Folkman, Chase Arrow, and the rest. We'll continue to follow it all here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. We set out that intersection of law and politics so that you don't have to and bring your stories just like this one. Follow me, Michael Popak, at MSPOPOC and on our new Legal AF YouTube channel. And then you can follow our podcast, Legal AF, every Wednesday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time right here on the Midas Touch YouTube channel. And then you can pick us up on all audio podcast platforms of your choice. So until my next hot take, until my next Legal AF,

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